Motif

Whiteness

• A color that terrifies because it might be nothing.
• Ivory, sepulchre, the lie that keeps Europe intact.
• The Judge’s skin; the bleaching of the world under noon.

Where it returns

• Moby-Dick

  Herman Melville · 1851

• Heart of Darkness

  Joseph Conrad · 1899

• Blood Meridian

  Cormac McCarthy · 1985